Jonathan Kirshner is a professor of political science at Boston College. He is the author of numerous books, including An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics (2022), American Power After the Financial Crisis (2014), Hollywood’s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America (2012), and the novel Urban Flight (2015).
Jonathan Kirshner
Articles
Addressing the China Challenge: Realisms Right and Wrong
What does the future hold for US–China relations, and what does it mean to be realistic about that future?
Rigged Capitalism and the Rise of Pluto-populism: On Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”
Jonathan Kirshner reviews Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.”
“A Very Strong Effect on the World”: A Conversation with Phillip Lopate
The noted essayist discusses his new anthology of essays, “The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945–1970.”
A Very Acute Watcher: A Conversation with David Thomson
Jonathan Kirshner interviews David Thomson on his book “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors.”
The Fire Last Time
What our financial saviors have failed to grasp about the Great Recession.
Confessions of a Left-Conservative: Norman Mailer in the Library of America
An essential writer in his quintessential decade.
Adam Tooze's Crashed: From the Global Financial Crisis to Know-Nothing Nativism
Jonathan Kirshner reviews "Crashed," a "sprawling, ambitious, undisciplined, and often deeply insightful book" by Adam Tooze.
Surviving the Emerging Dark Age: Towards a New Counterculture
Jonathan Kirshner on the emerging dark age, and how a move towards a new counterculture can save civilization.
This is the Spanish Civil War
Jonathan Kirshner makes the case that America today faces a similar moral crisis to that faced in the Spanish Civil War.
America, America
Jonathan Kirshner for BLARB: America, America
The Kardashian Candidate
Donald Trump is this election's Kardashian Candidate, marking our transition to a post-rationalist society.
Systemic Breakdown
Mervyn King’s "The End of Alchemy" is a book that demands close attention.
Mathematician, Statesman, Philosopher: The Life of John Maynard Keynes
Keynes, as Keynes, remains largely unknown and unappreciated: reduced to clichés, or, most commonly, invoked as an epithet.
Back to the Next Great Recession
Eichengreen's main point about the Great Recession is well taken: we ought to stop patting ourselves on the back and take a much harder look at what we got wrong.
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